Californians were preparing for another year of unrelenting drought in 2023. Instead, they got months of incessant rain and some of the heaviest snowfall they have ever seen.
As a result, the snowpack remains deep well into the heart of summer — so deep that some were still measuring it in early July. Steve Haugen, executive director of the Kings River Water Association, said snow depth information is still needed as he works to prevent any flooding impacts as the final slugs of snowmelt flow downstream.
Some reservoirs filled so quickly that, as the parade of storms continued into early spring, some began to worry: could this be more water than California could handle?. Dumping as much as a year’s worth of rain at elevations as high as 8,000 feet, the storm sent runoff racing down the Sierra slopes toward California’s Central Valley, where Foster oversees severalLate that night at Schafer Dam near Porterville, he watched as water begin trickling into a spillway, and then gushing through it.
But the historic year of snow was expected to end, at last, with another new extreme: A record-setting heat wave that set in last week, likely will melt the last traces of it. Hydrologists at the California Nevada River Forecast Center said that while the heat could send some rivers surging on the eastern side of the Sierra, any rise in California rivers was forecast to be minor.On the valley floor, water has returned to canals and irrigation ditches that were dry for years.
“Everyone was bracing for a third year of a zero percent allocation,” said Elizabeth Jonasson, a spokeswoman for the district. they’ve gotten a chance to make deposits into sapped aquifers, spreading surplus water across fallow fields and into basins so it can percolate into the ground.
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